98 Exhibition of Wild- flowers. \\o\ 



XXXIII. 



Frankston (Mr. J. G. ]\Iann), Cheltenham (Mr. J. R. Tovey), 

 Clayton and Oakleigh (]\Ir. J. W. Audas), Kiata (^Misses Pearl, 

 Ada, and Ahnee Brooks), Upper Pakenham (Mr. F. Wisewould), 

 Pakenham (Miss F. Hagens), Bunyip (Mrs. A'Beckett), Spring- 

 hurst (Mr. Reid), Echuca (Mr. A. Jago), Murtoa (Mrs. H. 

 Grinter), Elmore (Mr. A. W. R. Vroland). Portland (Messrs. 

 W. H. Dillon and W. Stukbery), Marysville (Mrs. J. F. Kepple), 

 Melbourne Botanic Gardens (the Director, Mr. J. Cronin), 

 Emerald (Misses E. and I. Ferres), Evelyn (Mr. C. Oke and Mr. 

 F. G. A. Barnard). Hall's Gap (Mrs. E. C. D' Alton and Mr. 

 Barnes), Millgrove (Mr. J. Kierce), Grampians (Miss G. N. L. 

 Nethercote and Mr. C. J. Gabriel), Fernbank (near Baimsdale) 

 (Mr. Geo. Coghill), Canterbury (Mr. F. Keep), various localities 

 (Messrs. E. E. Pescott and C. French). 



Other Exhibits. — Thirty-six samples of essential oils from 

 Australian trees and shrubs were exhibited by Dr. H. Green 

 and Mr. P. R. H. St. John on behalf of the Victorian Research 

 Committee. The latter also exhibited four cases, showing fruits 

 or seed-vessels of 64 species of Victorian eucalypts, while Miss 

 Amy Fuller exhibited a large series of water-colour paintings 

 of Western Australian and South African wild-fiowers. 



It is greatly to be regretted that it was found impossible to 

 either name all the flowers exhibited or to place on record the 

 more important species shown by the various exhibitors. This 

 is due to the limited time for arranging the specimens, and the 

 comparatively few members who were able to assist during 

 the early part of the day. 



ALPINE GIPPSLAND. 



DARGO AND THE WONXAXGATTA RIVER. 



By Chas. Daley, F.L.S. 



(Notes of Lecturette, loth July, 191 6.) 



At the July meeting of the Club I gave a series of brief ex- 

 planations of a number of lantern slides illustrative of alpine 

 Gippsland, more particularly the Mount Wellington and Dargo 

 districts. As the former locality has been the subject of two 

 or three papers in the Naturalist, I purpose confining these notes 

 to Dargo and the Wonnangatta River, as up to the present that 

 portion of Gippsland has been unnoticed in our journal. 



It was on a September vacation that, in company with a 

 friend, I started from Stratford to walk to the township of 

 Grant, 67 miles distant, via Dargo Flat, thence down the 

 Crooked River, reaching the Dargo road again at Waterford. 

 The country between Stratford and Stockdale is fairly well 



